Florida Senate - 2017                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 222
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                   Comm: RS            .                                
                  03/14/2017           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Steube) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 395.002, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         395.002 Definitions.—As used in this chapter:
    8         (3) “Ambulatory surgical center” or “mobile surgical
    9  facility” means a facility the primary purpose of which is to
   10  provide elective surgical care, in which the patient is admitted
   11  to and discharged from such facility within 24 hours the same
   12  working day and is not permitted to stay overnight, and which is
   13  not part of a hospital. However, a facility existing for the
   14  primary purpose of performing terminations of pregnancy, an
   15  office maintained by a physician for the practice of medicine,
   16  or an office maintained for the practice of dentistry shall not
   17  be construed to be an ambulatory surgical center, provided that
   18  any facility or office which is certified or seeks certification
   19  as a Medicare ambulatory surgical center shall be licensed as an
   20  ambulatory surgical center pursuant to s. 395.003. Any structure
   21  or vehicle in which a physician maintains an office and
   22  practices surgery, and which can appear to the public to be a
   23  mobile office because the structure or vehicle operates at more
   24  than one address, shall be construed to be a mobile surgical
   25  facility.
   26         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.
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   29  And the title is amended as follows:
   30         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   31  and insert:
   32                        A bill to be entitled                      
   33         An act relating to ambulatory surgical centers;
   34         amending s. 395.002, F.S.; revising the term
   35         “ambulatory surgical center”; providing an effective
   36         date.